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Sommer 1757: Im Nordosten Amerikas kämpfen die Truppen der Briten und der Franzosen erbittert um die Vorherrschaft - in einer schier endlosen Wildnis aus Wäldern, Seen und reißenden Flüssen, wo noch die stolzen indianischen Völker beheimatet sind. Ein junger britischer Offizier versucht mit den Schwestern Alice und Cora zu deren Vater ins Fort William Henry zu gelangen.

Priklyuchencheskiy roman Dzheymsa Fenimora Kupera "Zveroboy " vhodit v ego znamenityy cikl iz pyati romanov, posvyashchennyh istorii kolonizacii Severnoy Ameriki. Tragicheskie sobytiya gibeli indeyskoy civilizacii sluzhat fonom, na kotorom razvorachivayutsya zahvatyvayushchie priklyucheniya ohotnika i sledopyta Natti Bampo, po prozvishchu Zveroboy. Chestnyy i skromnyy ohotnik, vyrosshiy sredi indeycev plemeni delavarov, zhivet odnoy zhizn'yu s prirodoy. Roman povestvuet o yunosti geroya, postepenno prevrashchayushchegosya iz ohotnika v hrabrogo i mudrogo voina. V osnove syuzheta lezhit istoriya Tomasa Hattera i ego docherey, zhivushchih v plavuchem domike na ozere.

James F. Coopers klassischer Abenteuerroman "Der Kaperkapitän" spielt vor dem historischen Hintergrund des Seekrieges zwischen Großbritannien und Frankreich 1793. Vergeblich jagt eine englische Fregatte im Mittelmeer ein französisches Kaperschiff, das vor der Insel Elba aufgetaucht ist. Der Kapitän des Schiffes, Raoul Yvard, der sich wegen seiner Zuneigung zu einem italienischen Mädchen bis in die Nähe der englischen Flotte Admiral Nelsons gewagt hatte, gerät in Gefangenschaft und wird wegen angeblicher Spionage zum Tode verurteilt, ihm gelingt aber die Flucht und die Rückkehr auf sein Kaperschiff. Doch schon bald darauf wird das auf Klippen auflaufende Schiff von den Engländern aufgespürt.

Die Gestalt des Einzelgängers Natty Bumppo, genannt Lederstrumpf, steht für den vorbildhaften Frontiersman der amerikanischen Pionierzeit...

Ein spannendes Abenteuer-Hörspiel bei den Indianern in der Wildnis in 6 Kapiteln...

Waldläufer Natty Bumppo, auch "Lederstrumpf" genannt, kann in letzter Sekunde einem Überfall der Irokesen entkommen, doch seine Gefährten geraten in Gefangenschaft. Zusammen mit Chingachgook, dessen geliebte Wah-ta-Wah ebenfalls von den Irokesen entführt wurde, macht er sich auf, die Gefangenen zu befreien.

Als der junge Offizier Heyward die beiden Töchter des Kommandanten ins Fort bringen soll, wir der von dem Waldläufer Natty Bumppo und seinem Freund Chingachgook vor einem Hinterhalt der Indianer gewarnt. So gelangen sie sicher zum Fort, doch dann werden die Mädchen von Indianern entführt. Natty und Chingachgook versuchen sie zu retten.

L'ultimo dei Mohicani è un romanzo d'avventura scritto da James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1826. Fu il romanzo più letto al suo tempo ed è oggi considerato il suo romanzo migliore.La storia è ambientata nel 1757, nella “guerra dei sette anni” che vide i Francesi strumentalizzare, nella loro guerra contro gli Inglesi per il predominio in alcune colonie, alcune tribù dei nativi americani.

A story of a well-reputed crew who is faced with repelling the efforts of a group of pirates. Teamwork would win the day, and the narrative of the moment by moment skirmish makes for a delightful tale from a classic author. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

This is a story from the More Classic American Short Stories collection.

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce - why is that window boarded up? - and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, but forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.

This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British. Hawkeye and his friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, are the last remaining Mohican chieftains. When the evil Magua threatens the life of an innocent English woman, Hawkeye finds himself at the center of a battle for honor and vengeance.

James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist. Son of the prominent federalist William Cooper, founder of the Cooperstown settlement, James was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentleman. After his father's death in an 1809 duel, Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned to writing but his first book, Precaution (1820), was a failure.

The hero of The Pilot - modeled on John Paul Jones - leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novel, published in 1823, helped start the genre of sea novels. Cooper's other major works include the renowned Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prarie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of Native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father.

The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper's great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly 90 in 1804, Bumppo is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper, now on the Great Plains. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his miscreant brother-in-law, Abiram White. And once again this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue the innocent.

While portraying life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the final years of the 18th century, Cooper deftly explores the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He contrasts the natural codes of the hunter and woodsman, Natty Bumppo, and his Indian friend John Mokegan with the more rigid structure of law required by a more complex society.

James Fenimore Cooper wrote five "leather-stocking" tales. This is the second and most famous. It comes between The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. Here the white frontiersman, Hawkeye (aka Natto Bumppo and Leather Stocking) is nobly matched with Uncas, the Indian of the title.

In danger of Indian raids at all times, a small party of colonial Americans flee before the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian wars. Hawkeye, the scout, is the great figure in this classic story; the climax comes in the tragic encounter between two rival Indians, Magwa and Uncas, the last Mohican chief.

Toda una tradicion de novelas de aventuras en el oeste estadounidense, entre los indios pieles rojas, que aun perdura en nuestros dias en la literatura y en el cine, fue la iniciada por Fenimore Cooper, un distinguido escritor de ese pais, que a principios del siglo XIX escribio una serie de novelas, que siguen entre las mas destacadas del genero y de las cuales El ultimo de los mohicanos es no solo la mas conocida sino la mejor.